Under the direct supervision of the Director of the Division of External Operations (“DEO”), the Judicial Cooperation Support Section (“JCSS”) is responsible for providing a coordinated, strategic approach to judicial cooperation within the Registry and Court’s stakeholders as a whole, both internally and externally, allowing the Registry to exercise a more prominent and strategic role in this regard.
The JCSS will consist of two units, the Judicial Cooperation Unit (JCU) and the Suspects-at-Large Unit (SLU). The oversight of the Section will be the responsibility of the Chief of JCSS in consultation with the Director of the DEO as well as the Registrar with their foremost responsibility being to develop and execute an efficient and effective strategy to ensure the full implementation of requests for assistance, judicial cooperation and state cooperation in the context of proceedings before the ICC.
The Section will also be responsible for developing strategies and implementing external relations actions to further judicial cooperation objectives (including, inter alia, the conclusion of (voluntary) cooperation agreements related to the court proceedings, external engagements and participation at conferences and meetings on cooperation matters).
The Judicial Cooperation Unit (JCU), under the direction of the Head of Unit and the oversight of the Chief of JCSS, will be responsible for cooperation matters pertaining to the implementation of Judicial Orders (including, inter alia, tracing and freezing of assets, (interim) release, witness appearance and evidence collection, observations from States) and to the provision of support to Defence, Legal Representatives of Victims and Registry sections for the discharge of activities in the context of their respective mandate.